Regret & counterfactuals (n.) is the idea that people judge outcomes partly by comparing them with what might have happened had they chosen differently.
Regret & counterfactuals (n.) is the idea that people's satisfaction depends both on outcomes and ideas about what could have happened.
Remorse (n.) is cowardice towards one's own deed: it can undo nothing — one would have to be a theologian to believe in a power that cancels guilt.
Remorse (n.) is cowardice toward one's own deeds; no deed is undone by being regretted, any more than by being forgiven or atoned for.
Remorse (n.) is already a sign of decadence, an inability to have done with an experience: reopening old wounds produces not salvation but a new soul-sickness.
A Remorse (n.) is punishment made more inward — the old legislator's tool given a new interpretation.
Repentance (n.) is rarely sincere when late.
Repentance (n.) is the May of the virtues.
Repentance (n.) is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence.
Repentance (n.) is the virtue of weak minds.
Self-reproach (n.) is a roast where you showed up as every act.
Self-reproach (n.) is guilt that needs no jury because the defendant already confessed
Self-reproach (n.) is guilt doing the work of a parent who has left the room.
Self-reproach (n.) is itself a kind of vanity: why should you be immune to human failure?